• ftmpch@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Has the article been edited since being posted here? Because it doesn’t mention any of those diseases, and actually says the monkeys weren’t infectious.

    • arrow74@lemmy.zipOP
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      1 day ago

      Yes it’s kinda crazy they completely changed the article and there’s no indication that they changed it

    • Doug Holland@lemmy.world
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      Yup. When I read the article a few hours ago, it was a lot scarier than it is now.

      Everybody makes occasional mistakes, but the journalistic norm is to append a correction, which isn’t here. Something like, “An earlier version of this story incorrectly reported that the escaped monkeys would kill you and your family. WLBT regrets the error.”